M-x mew with (setq debug-on-error t) gives: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) string-to-int(nil) mew-update-range() mew-input-range("+inbox") mew-summary-get() mew(nil) call-interactively(mew) execute-extended-command(nil) * call-interactively(execute-extended-command)